Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-17

Among the visitors present at the
graduating exercises of the High Schoo
last Friday evening were: Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Chandler, Mr.. and Mrs. r
Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Davey
Misses Emma Carter, Nellie and Edith
Bennett, Jennie Roberts, Jennie Jones
Mile Hooking, Lizzie Hosking, Lima
Johns, Cora Schel, Annie Roberts, An.
ME Noble, Lille Williams, Josie Pryor
Mary Jones, and Messrs. NJ. J. Tappins,
Yves. Hooking, Ralph Johnson, John
CORN, Dave kellogg, Barney Goodsell
Fave Owens, Curtis Williams, Temby
VIII Pryor, Henry James, Richard
Matthews, Ed Prideaux, Merit. Prid-
eaux, Thos. Rowe and VERNE Rogers,
from Dodgeville; and Misses Clara
Gray, Mabel Bates, Belle Proctor, Min
ME Shockley, Kate Shaw, Minnie Agur,
Hattie Crow, and Messrs. Frank Conley,
VIII Bridgman, and Orville Benedict,
from Darlington.
The lecture on Monday evening by
| Mrs. Matilda Fletcher was very much
enjoyed and appreciated by those in
attendance. Throughout the entire
evening she held the undivided atten-
ton of her audience. She is an ear
nest and f0rcible advocate of the plan
| of industrial education as carried out
in many of the countries of Europe;
by means of which young men are
educated in some particular trade or
profession, and the young women also
thoroughly trained in course fitting
them to be complete home-keepers, in
stead of limiting the education simply
to the training of the mental powers.
She is an attractive speaker, and her
lecture will long be remembered with
sincere pleasure by the listeners. 1t is
seldom that Mineral Point has had an
opportunity of hearing such a dis
tinguished lecturer.
The Platteville Democrat of last
week contained an item praising up
the Howe, Wall Il Clark MINISTRIES,
and denOuncing an emplOye of the
G. NJ. & st. T.. railway company who
sent a dispatch from Mineral Point
notifying the people of Platteyille
that the show was not worthy of pat
ronage. All who attended the show
at Mineral Point are of the same
opinion as the man who sent the dis
patch to Platteville. If he took more
stock in a vulgar minstrel show than
in good morals and the welfare of
society he doubtless would not have
attempted to save the good people of
Platteville from being deceived by
the false pretensions of Howe, Wall
81 Clark's "refined MINISTRIES. If the
editor of The Plateyille Democrat had
witnessed their show in this city it is
hardly possible that he would enter
tain an exalted opinion of the troupe.
Rumors of the building of new lines
of railroads north and south through
southwestern Wisconsin are rife. One
of the latest is the following which, no
doubt, the citizens of Mineral Point
would like to see materialiZe: That the
Chicago, Milwaukee, ~ st. Paul com
pany, becoming alarmed at the aggres-
sive movements of the Illinois Central
company's encroachments on its terri
tory, has about decided to extend its
road from Mineral Point to Lone Rock
via Dodgeville, and from Richland
Center to Niroqua or Sparta, thereby
closing all gaps and making new
continuous line from Chicago to st.
Paul. 1t is reported that the Chicago,
Burlington X Northern railway, which
was completed last year, has encroached
largely on the st. Paul's business in
western Vernon county and elsewhere,
which is another incentive for the COM
pletion of this line which will make
the shortest through route between
these two great cities, and enable the
st. Paul company to hold its own bus
mess in its own territory. 1t is also
reported that this line will be put
through to Ashland, which would make
it one of the greatest of trunk lines.